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A group of Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers is considering whether the government can launch a project to salvage wreckage from the World War II battleship Yamato from the bottom of the East China Sea. The lawmakers are also considering collecting the remains of the ...

German and Japanese citizens in the city of Potsdam held a day of remembrance Saturday for victims of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki almost 70 years ago. The city near Berlin is famed as the site where in 1945 U.S. President ...

In May 1945, a pastor from Bly, Oregon, led his wife and a group of children on a day trip near Klamath Falls. They were all looking forward to hours of fishing and picnicking in fine weather. Everyone got out of the car while ...

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui said he plans to urge world leaders to foster mutual trust through dialogue in his statement marking the 70th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of his city. “My Peace Declaration (to be issued Aug. 6) will call on leaders ...

An outside director of Mitsubishi Materials Corp. said the company hopes to apologize to former British, Dutch and Australian World War II prisoners of war, and also reach an amicable solution with Chinese forced laborers, following a landmark apology to American POWs earlier this ...

China’s official Xinhua News Agency said in an article that Mitsubishi Materials Corp. should also apologize to Chinese workers, the day after the company delivered an apology to former American prisoners of war forced to work for the company during World War II. On ...

Saying they felt a "deep sense of ethical responsibility for a past tragedy," executives from Mitsubishi Materials Corp. give an unprecedented apology to a 94-year-old U.S. prisoner of war for using American POWs for forced labor during World War II.

People in Okinawa more or less feel Japan has continued to betray them, according to local officials. “There is no safe place around here,” said Kiyoshi Nakamura, head of the Ginowan district of the Okinawa city of Ginowan, looking up at a U.S. Marine ...

As astonishing as its vigor is the fact that Russia’s eastward expansion, beginning in the 16th century, went all but unnoticed, by Japan no less than by Europe. Japan and Russia were bound to meet. Russian sailors reached the Sea of Okhotsk in 1639. ...

An atomic bomb survivor on Thursday recounted what she experienced during the U.S. attack on Hiroshima and called for the abolition of nuclear weapons in comments made to members of the British Parliament via the Internet telephone service Skype. According to the Hiroshima Municipal ...

Dozens of Japanese who were repatriated as youngsters from China at the end of World War II met with Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao in Beijing on Wednesday. During the meeting in the Great Hall of the People, Li said the Chinese people want ...